Of the property stocks, Ang likes City Developments, which has a strong balance sheet and a land bank acquired at cheap prices.
Other planned projects which have fuelled a demand for building workers include a proposed 30-turbine offshore wind farm at Scarweather Sands, off Porthcawl, the proposed development of film studios at Llanharan, near Bridgend and city centre developments in Swansea.
Meantime, slow-but-steady transit improvements to the area and policy changes under the new mayor made Moscow City one of the few new developments allowed to continue in the city center, say industry experts.
Co-founder Minoru Mori is behind some of the city's tallest developments, like Roppongi Hills and ARK Hills.
Toll's City Living division, which has 10 condo developments under way in New York City, is scheduled to announce on Wednesday its first condo development in the Washington area.
London and New York have been rivals for decades, but Steil said several recent developments favor the City.
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Ms. Quinn's plan would, through state legislation, create a new city tax credit for affordable housing developments and require developers who receive the subsidy to renew the below-market rate aspects of their buildings every 30 years, at the city's request.
The rush for office space has also stimulated interest in unfinished developments going up around the city.
Families looking for houses, not apartments, might want to consider Hongqiao or Songjiang west, and south of the city centre for their Western-style developments with green space.
The same is true in Hanoi, where the city authorities are battling to stop new housing and retail developments encroaching on historic buildings in the old quarter.
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In the city, construction cranes have stirred, and long-mothballed property developments are swarming with workers.
Transport developments will be no less powerful an influence in shaping city development in the next century.
Downstairs, a Chinese hipster in decidedly untraditional clothing was waiting in a beaten-up city cab, and soon we were hurtling through modern high-rise developments and shopping complexes.
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Notable swings and misses include monster cases in Manhattan (the city was seeking payback for lead-abatement costs in hundreds of housing developments), Louisiana and Texas (suits were filed by school districts in both states for damages related to lead in schools).
But several large office-space and hotel developments have been carried out or planned alongside the river under the project the city calls Mediaspree.
Outside of beaches, city parks and sidewalks, one common boiling over point in the poop wars is planned subdivisions, residential developments, and apartment buildings, where dog owners and non-owners share close quarters, adjacent homes, and often common or commonly owned areas including roadways and landscaping.
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When the plan is completed, supposedly by 2015, the city will have redeveloped 25, 000 public-housing units, with 7, 697 built in mixed-income developments.
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